Modern history

Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014 1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject.…

transformed the study of history to a continuous and research driven university discipline. It is important to note that the study of history was not created by Stubbs as it was present for centuries. However through Stubbs’s work the subject of history began to have an impact for academic studies and future historians. The legacy of Stubbs can be seen through the introduction of the Constitution History of England. Stubbs’s articulates a warning to his audience before reading the history of the…

view of history and do our modern terms change our perception of the times being examined? Robert Bartlett’s usage of terms such as “ethnicity” and “colonialism”, addresses an important question of modern concepts in our understanding of the medieval past. The purpose of this paper is to make connections of the key ideas of Robert Bartlett’s use of these concepts, ethnicity and colonization, in his book “The Hanged Man” drawing from his own explanations from his articles, “Medieval and Modern…

When you think of World History, some may say that you possibly think of people like Martin Luther King Jr., or Aberham Lincoln, or maybe even George Bush. Now World History is actually the global history or transnational History (not to be confused with diplomatic or international history) is a field of Historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines History from a global perspective. History is definitely one of kind and is Seemingly important to know and…

various historical narratives either about or related to race in Latin America there are many trends. Still, we see the largest change in the concepts used by former and modern historians. Although past and present historians have had to involve many social aspects in their concepts of Race in Latin American history past and present, Modern historians are able to use the many newer historical concepts available to them. These historical concepts are ones that due to postmodern popularity usually…

Kathleen Kerner Dance History Mr. Garfinkel 12/1/14 “Pina” Bausch Philippine, or “Pina”, Bausch created some of the most interesting and radical modern dance works of her time because they are based on human relations and how we interact with each other. Born in 1940, in Solingen, Germany, she was born into a family of business owners with her parents owning a connecting restaurant and hotel. She and her siblings worked for her parents at a very young age. In doing so, Pina would observe…

Re-Thinking History by Keith Jenkins is a book that takes a critical look at writing history and how historians have individual approaches to history and the past. Jenkins creates a debate about theories, the definition of history, the question of truth, bias, and history as a science or as an art. He asks similar questions as John Tosh and John H. Arnold. All three challenge previous historians and theories. Jenkins even asks readers what method and ideology would they choose to follow, that of…

success. It is intellectual capacity through perception from past to future. People residing in modern societies have a different assessment of memory. Physical memories, a body memory often can be seen as the habit of fondness. For instance, your body would automate react to pain within the leg or when all the necessary mean are met such as a simple hug. Also can be you as a source of communication. The modern multicultural adopted this mean of communication in replace of words being used. It…

The 20th century expanded the definition of art could be, among the new possibilities was that art could be an experience. The following artists created multi-sensory experiences for their audiences that subverted traditional notions of space and time. German artist Joseph Beuys “sought to rehumanize both art and life by drastically narrowing the gap between the two”(455). Being that Beuys was a Fluxus artist, it was not long until his art turned into performance. Beuys believed that there was…

Studying early human society help us to understand the modern events and issues of our world today because it allows us a chance to learn about who we came from.We study both our collective pasts and our individual pasts to gain a better understanding of who we are today and where we are going in the future. We also learn lessons and those lessons learned from the past can influence hopefully for the better the social, political, and environmental actions we take today. By studying the past we…